How much Turbulence can a Boeing 777-300ER take?

Some light to moderate chops, while flying over Romania; Watch the wing flex at 0:43 !; video was taken while circumnavigating a thunderstorm on Emirates Boeing 777-300ER to Dubai

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[MrGenderbender]

Turbulence has never brought an aircraft of any kind down, calm yourself....

[doc7austin]

@MrGenderbender: what about Air France AF 447 Rio-Paris? Turbulence was a major contributor to the crash.

[prussell890]

@doc7austin nope, turbulance had nothing to do with that. The peto tubes got blocked with supe cooled water which prevented an accurate air speed reading which resulted in two major stalls. No aircraft has crashed as a result of turbulance.

[doc7austin]

@prussell890 Yes, the pitot tubes; They failed because the plane entered a turbulent storm system with very high clouds over the tropics with supercooled water; I assume the crash could have been avoided if the pilot took a larger detour around these turbulent storms; I've flown around this area quite often, it was usually a constant left and right turns to navigate around those clouds; Turbulence made the matter worse, because (I assume) it limited the situational awareness

[edjurajuria]

@doc7austin that crash was produced by a human mistake.. that've been declared by airfrance.

[SuperApparition]

@doc7austin I think you'll find you're both incorrect. The Air France AF 447 flight is believed to have crashed because peto tubes were blocked with cooled water which prevented an accurate air speed reading. This resulted in two very serious stalls.

[Shmossy]

Holy shit, those clouds are just amazing. Blows my mind.

[celderian]

@MrGenderbender

That is not entirely true. Look up BOAC 911. Thankfully, with the huge advances we made with navigation instruments, no one should ever find himself in the situation they encountered.

[nyflyer11787]

@MrGenderbender you are wrong sir. BOAC flight 911 was destroyed by turbulence.

[thomasboss01]

@prussell890

I would presume in the very early days of flying there would of had to be a crash caused by strong turbulence....these days though airplanes are designed to fly easily through the worst of the worst...:)

[razoto1994]

@doc7austin no the turbulence, but the altimether and the speed indicator

don't forget that they were flying in a cummulus-nibus

[BeemerTwelve]

BOAC flight 911 disintegrated in mid-air due to turbulence. Many passengers and crew members have suffered serious or fatal injuries due to turbulence. Either way just keep your seat belt on at all times sometimes not even the pilot knows what lays ahead.

[RichardEllisxyz]

@wokoandlawz "I'm a Boeing engineer and we didn't design the wing....." Watch some Discovery channel once & a while. They test the wings to destruction by bending them till they break...the wingtips are almost vertical before they break. They can bob up and down a dozen feet easily before being damaged....but thirty feet, out of sight, or more before they "break".

[belfedhalhamza]

Shush let me watch the vid !!!!!!